Supergroup Crash Karma rocked the house for a decent sized Sunday night crowd at Average Joes, Oct. 6.
The group including former Our Lady Peace Guitarist Mike Turner, former I Mother Earth frontman Edwin on vocals, The Tea Party drummer Jeff Burrows and Zygote’s Amir Epstein on bass played most of their new CD “Rock Musique Deluxe,” but also added a few “legacy tracks.”
The enthusiastic audience applauded wildly from their seats until Edwin told them to come to the front of the stage.
“We don’t bite, except for Mike,” he laughed as a few of the audience did so. They focused on the more straight ahead rock of their new CD, but played a couple from their last CD.
Turner switched between a few Telecasters and a Les Paul, playing subdued ’90s style riffs and ripping on solos.
Edwin showed he still has a fine set of pipes, while Epstein added bone shaking grooves. while Burrows bashed at his kits.
Midway through the set, Epstein and guitarist Turner picked up acoustic guitars and Edwin took a seat for the “sing along” part of the show which had the audience singing along with their favourite 90s hits including the Tea Party’s “Heaven’s Coming Down, I Mother Earth’s “Alive,” and more.
Everyone sang along.
It was time to rock, once again after that as they played a few of Crash Karma’s own hits including the latest “Tomorrow,” then they ended with a request for “One More Astronaut,” which one audience member has been shouting for all night.
One Bad Son opened the show with a hot set of ’70s inspired, riff heavy rock.
They played all of their hits from their self titled album, introduced a couple new ones and even took a stab at Led Zeppelin’s “Immigrant Song.” which they made their own thanks to vocalist Shane Volk’s distinctive voice.